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Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters
Dear developers, We’re thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! This is a moment we’ve built side by side with you. Your feed...
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Support ends for older versions of Visual Studio
We want to keep you secure when using Visual Studio. If you’re using an older version of Visual Studio, we have several reminders about upcoming events in the Visual Studio support lifecycle. What does this mean for you? Visual Studio 2022 is our most productive IDE ever, and we recommend all our customers upgrade to it, especially those using the Community Edition. With Visual Studio 2022 we offer three channels: Preview Channel so that you can provide early feedback on the latest features. The Current Channel provides these new features when they are ready for widespread use. Users should ...
Azure DevOps requires TLS 1.2 on all connections including Visual Studio
Starting Monday January 31st, Azure DevOps will no longer accept connections coming over TLS 1.0 and 1.1 due to security vulnerabilities in those protocols. Developers have increasingly become the target of hackers and these protocols have known security vulnerabilities not specific to Microsoft’s implementation. Going forward Azure DevOps will require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections, including their web API and Git services. To avoid any issues, please upgrade to the latest version of Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio 2019, and the latest release of Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.9 an...
Code search in Visual Studio 2022 is about to get much faster
Visual Studio 2022 Find in Files is already more than 2x faster for 95% of searches compared to Visual Studio 2019. We wanted to make code search even better. I am excited to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 3 introduces indexed Find in Files to make your search experience even faster! To try out the performance improvements yourself, download Visual Studio 2022 Preview: How has Visual Studio 2022 Code Searching Improved Compared to Visual Studio 2019 The above graph illustrates the major improvements we have seen in search performance for the 95th percentile of searches executed since ...
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 5
Today, we released Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 5, marking the first Visual Studio for Mac release running on .NET 6 and natively on Apple’s M1 (ARM-based) processor. This change has resulted in some immediate performance wins and lays the foundation for the team to innovate more rapidly in the future.
Bringing Code Cleanup on Save To Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2
Starting in Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, developers can now perform Code Cleanup automatically when a file is being saved! Code Cleanup automatically on Save is a new feature integrated into Visual Studio 2022 that can clean up your code file to make sure it is formatted correctly and that your coding style preferences are applied. Some customizable preferences include: format document, sort usings, remove unnecessary usings, and more. This feature can help minimize stylistic violations within PRs and more to allow developers to spend less time fixing code not meeting specific standards and more time doing ...
Introducing new Git features to Visual Studio 2022
We continue to enhance the Git experience in Visual Studio, and we are excited to announce some long-awaited updates in version 17.1 Preview 2. Download the latest Visual Studio Preview and check out the following new Git features. Compare branches Comparing branches provides an overview of differences between two branches which can be very helpful before creating a pull request, merging, or even deleting a branch. To compare your currently checked out branch with other branches using Visual Studio, you can utilize the branch picker hosted in the status bar and the Git changes tool wind...
Integrated Chat in Live Share for Visual Studio 2022
Announcement of Live Share chat for Visual Studio 2022.
Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2 is now available!
Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 continues to iterate on the themes of the Visual Studio 2022 release. We're enhancing existing features, bringing new productivity improvements, and making it easier for you to make Visual Studio your own.
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I keep thinking about a tweet that said you should tackle challenging problems and do everything you can to maximize time well spent, so your ecosystem doesn’t have to. Because once you’re distracted, it can be challenging to get back into the flow of writing code. Developers juggle a massive cognitive overload of different software, links, tools, bookmarks, tickets, pull requests, search engines, and online forums each day. But that tweet also reminded me of the last several months. For 3 months, I read every comment in Developer Community tickets from the last four years that I could find related to Visual ...